This is a shameless plug for an upcoming workshop.  I don’t typically do this but wanted to get the word out quickly.

Marketing Strategies

Good marketers measure everything. Specifically they measure what activities are creating the traffic they must have to convert visitors to customers. Good marketers would never put a marketing strategy in place and never look back to see if they are getting results.
And one of the most important things they measure is their “conversion rate”.

That’s the percentage of their website visitors who actually buy from them.
But would you believe that the average conversion rate for most websites is a measly 1% OR LESS!?!?
What is YOUR website’s conversion rate?
That’s why a list is so important, and building a list correctly is the key to bigger sales and higher profits.
If you set up your list right, about 20% of your visitors will opt into it. And if you do a good job marketing to your list, you’ll help them to trust you and purchase your products and service.
You’ll have the ability to build traffic and use lists that most realtors never have –
even after years of online marketing experience.
Want to learn how “Internet Gurus” are taking advantage of the internet and social networking strategies?
Learn how I personally increased my unique visitors to my blog from 400 per month to 1200 per month in only 30 days during the month of July, 2008. Could you use 1200 new pair of eyes joining your fan club?
Look here for more info
The internet is a different game today than it was 18 months ago. Want No Cost Traffic? Learn how to individually take advantage of the social networking aspects of the internet.  Quality writing and great content are important keys to success.
A good number of solopreneurs are struggling in 2008. Give yourself an advantage over your competition in 2009. I would love to help you put new online strategies in place to create a strong internet presence resulting in more sales. As with any marketing and prospecting plan your activities today will provide the momentum for your sales in the future. I look forward to working with you.

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This week I will add a sign up box on the home page and offer a free report.  Also next weekend I will share a tool I used to grade my site when I began and I will grade it again on August 1st and see how much improvement I achieved in the month’s time.  Come back next week to learn about this tool and how you can use it to help you improve your web standings.

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Here are my thoughts; I began my blog to support solopreneurs in the start up phase and first couple of years in business.  That support is intended to help them grow their businesses as well as remember to live balanced lives and not let their businesses take over.  Not that everyone wants to avoid letting their business take over their life.  But, the support will be available.  Okay, I got off track a little here.  I am going to take this relatively baby blog and use the strategies I have found to determine how long it takes to generate a fair amount of traffic.  And we will find out together what works and what doesn’t work.

Let’s begin…About a week ago I added the plugin from www.feedburner.com (netted me three new subscribers).  Suggestion number two is to post to your blog frequently and my goal will be three times a week.  This will be my third post this week and I have two more in my pipeline.  To accomplish this I will set aside time each week to just write, research, and build up a backlog of options.  Suggestion number three post comments to other blogs on a regular basis.  I began this practice today, Saturday June 28th and plan to continue at least once a week to post comments to two or three blogs.  We will find out what the magic number is.  Third suggestion that I am implementing this week is to write and submit articles to ezine directories.  From my research it appears that www.ezinearticles.com is the most widely used.  Today, I am posting my first article.  Finally, about mid week I added the Stumble It logo and rated my blog on the site.  As you can see their code has been added but the logo doesn’t display properly.  I have decided to leave it as is for now.

Here is my blog history with virtually no promotion going on except a small amount of pay per click.  I have suspended the pay per click with the exception of the local newspaper site which I have a balance of $50.00 in my account.  This will be the only money I spend during the next 30 days.

Month    Unique visitors    Number of visits       Pages Hits          Bandwidth

Jan 2008      260                  331                     1122             6985 24.84 MB

Feb 2008      303                  401                     1172             8241 28.93 MB

Mar 2008      273                  349                     1003             5577 22.69 MB

Apr 2008      160                  244                       827             3237 16.26 MB

May 2008     432                  573                     1041            10530 38.46 MB

Jun 2008      224                  364                     1122             5244 27.72 MB

Total         1652                 2262                    6287             39814 158.90 MB

Would you agree if I can’t do better than this I should take up crochet or something?  Okay, let’s have some fun.  And please give me your thoughts and check back frequently to learn about my results.

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